This is the Koryo Burger, the only food item served on North Korea's state airline

NORTH Korea's state-run airline serves its passengers only one item of food.

The Koryo Burger is always served stone cold - straight from the fridge - on a paper doily with an unidenfitied slice of processed meat in the middle.

The bun is stale, there's a slice of processed cheese, a few wispy slices of shredded cabbage or a single lettuce leaf (but usually not both).

Some say the mystery sauce is red, some say it's brown, but most generally agree it's too watery to be blood left over from the animal that became the patty.

It's pretty much exactly what you'd expect from an airline named as one of the worst in the world, according to review website Skytrax.

And yet, its repulsiveness has gained an almost cult-level following around the world.Journalist Jamie Fullerton wrote for Vice that, like many others on the flight, he didn't finish his burger, "but this was largely due to the chewy blandness rather than revulsion.

"The meat was inoffensively dull and, true to the intrigue that surrounds it, even tougher to identify than it was to chew".

He said the weirdness only added to the sense of confusion he felt watching the bizarre propaganda videos that played the whole two hours from Beijing to Pyongyang.

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